[Evergreen-governance-l] Governance Committee Meeting tomorrow?

[Dan Scott]

Heh, one of the advantages of writing all of this down is that it's easy
to copy and paste into the wiki, so... no problem on this front :)

Dan

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 04:51:32PM -0400, Amy Terlaga wrote:
> Thanks for the update, Dan.
> 
> Do you plan to provide a summary of this during the IRC meeting tomorrow,
> too?
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Scott [mailto:dan at coffeecode.net] 
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 4:47 PM
> To: Amy Terlaga
> Cc: evergreen-governance-l at list.georgialibraries.org
> Subject: Re: [Evergreen-governance-l] Governance Committee Meeting tomorrow?
> 
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:19:04PM -0400, Amy Terlaga wrote:
> > Hi all -
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Just checking - are we still on for tomorrow's governance committee
> meeting?
> > If we are, we'll need to keep it to just one hour since the IRC meeting is
> > scheduled for 2pm ET.
>  
> Hi Amy:
> 
> The meeting time still works for me.
> 
> I did hear back from Bradley at the Conservancy regarding our request
> for assistance in navigating the developer / library director waters;
> the response was:
> 
> """
> I think the answer to you primary inquiry is "yes, Conservancy does
> want to help figure out the best way to make sure that the leadership of
> Evergreen is diverse and not overly influenced by a single corporate
> entity".
> 
> I should be sending out offers for joining from the last round very
> soon.  I'm sorry for the delay on that.  Once those are sent, we can
> begin this discussion with the Evergreen community.
> """
> 
> FWIW, I haven't heard anything official one way or the other from the
> Conservancy regarding our application; I imagine they will respond to
> the governance list when they do respond. For those who don't know,
> Bradley Kuhn left the Software Freedom Law Center to become the
> full-time director of the Software Freedom Conservancy a few weeks back,
> which is why a few things have been delayed. It's ironic, because the
> reason he decided to become a full-time director of the Conservancy was
> to be able to be more responsive to member projects - there is an
> interview in Linux Weekly News with Bradley Kuhn at
> http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/409303/d0054fbeb4832a6d/ for those who
> want more information.
> 
> One aside about the change from acting as a volunteer for the
> Conservancy in his spare time, to being a full-time director, is that
> Bradley will need to draw a living wage from the Conservancy - and
> therefore I do not know how possible it will be for the Conservancy to
> accept new projects that aren't willing to contribute some percentage of
> their funds. I still think the Conservancy direction is the right way to
> go - having a neutral third party hold assets on behalf of the entire
> community makes sense to me, and there will be expenses associated with
> bookkeeping, writing cheques, 501(c)(3) reporting, etc one way or
> another - but we might as well recognize what the change in Bradley's
> employment status means to our application. We haven't stated anything
> one way or another about the percentage donation issue as of yet, so we
> might as well start having that discussion.
> 
> Dan
>